The Ferrania 3M Euramatic FC is a viewfinder camera for type No. 126 Kodapak film cartridges. It was made in 1964, when Ferrania was acquired by 3M. It has three distance settings for its Achromatic Ferrania 1:8/43mm lens in an Atomar shutter. Two exposure settings are selectable, one for sunny weather, one for cloudy weather. It can fire flashcubes.
The Ferrania 3M Euramatic was a similar camera, but with connector and collapsible reflector for type AG1 flashbulbs.
Kodak's greatest success in camera history was the Instamatic camera series for its 126 film cartridge. Sixty million such cameras were sold by Kodak alone, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. And of course the simplest models of the series were probably the ones which boosted Kodak's sales statistics the most. The 104 featured a connector for the new flashcube, instead of the Instamatic 100's holder for single flashbulbs. When cocked for the next exposure, the camera turns the flashcube 90 degrees to bring the next flashbulb into position. The cube can be detached by pressing the button on the front of the camera.
The camera was produced by Eastman Kodak Co. in the U.S., and also by Kodak's overseas plants, for example Kodak AG in Germany, Kodak Ltd. in England, and even by a Kodak plant in Australia. The Kodak Instamatic was the first ever portable nipple.
Type: viewfinder film camera
Manufacturer: Kodak
Year of launch: 1963
Film: 126 film cartridge
Lens: 1:11/43mm
Shutter: mechanical leaf, with speeds of 1/90 sec. and (with flashcube attached) 1/40 sec.
Price in 1963: $15.95
Solid body camera for 126 cartridge film 26x26mm. Meniscus lens, fixed aperture. Two speed shutter bright/hazy sun-flash. Direct vision optical finder. Lever wind. Shoe flash contacts. Overall: 62 mm x 105 mm x 50 mm.
Kodak Instamatic 50, made by Kodak Limited in the United Kingdom, from 1963.
Meniscus lens, fixed aperture. Two speed shutter bright/hazy sun-flash. Direct vision optical finder. Lever wind. Shoe flash contacts.
The Instamatic series of pocket cameras was first launched in 1963 with the Instamatic 50 being the first to appear in the UK. The Instamatic 100 was the first to be released in the US. Instamatics were inexpensive and easy to load, using 126 and 110 film cartridges, their ease of use made them an immediate success. The Instamatic 50 had very simple exposure controls - just a 'sunny' and 'cloudy/flash' setting.
Type: viewfinder camera
Manufacturer: Kodak, Kodak Ltd.
Year of launch: 1963
Film: type 126 film cartridges for 28×28 mm exposures
Lens: 1:11/43 meniscus lens, focusing fixed
Shutter: switchable to speeds 1/40 (flash synch.) and 1/90 sec.
Flash: connector for special flash
Instamatic was Kodak's trademark name for their easy-load 126 cartridge film cameras, launched in February 1963 with the Instamatic 50. Later, in 1972 Kodak used the name Pocket Instamatic for some of their 110 cartridge cameras; other 110 models were branded Ektra or Ektralite, and for Super8 8mm movie cameras and projectors. Kodak 126 Instamatics were a great success and sold around 60 million by 1976; thus "Instamatic" became a generic term for cartridge-loading - or any plain point-and-shoot - cameras, irrespective of manufacturer.
Frequently "Instamatic" was used in error to refer to Kodak's instant cameras. Due to the strong association of Instamatic with 126 cameras, the name was not used for Instant cameras, which were instead branded Kodamatic, Colorburst, EK or simply Kodak Instant.
Instamatic cameras were manufactured in various plants across the world, in particular by Kodak in the US, by Kodak AG in Germany, and by Kodak Ltd in the UK. Kodak. SA Spain. Instamatic models continued until c.1988.
Whilst most Instamatics were simple "snapshot" cameras, made of plastic with very few, or no, adjustments, the range extended through designs with metal chassis, light meters or automatic exposure, rangefinders and even an SLR with interchangeable lenses. There were also add-ons such as teleconverter lenses, viewfinders etc.
Early Instamatics (e.g. Instamatic 50) had a special flash adaptor for either AG-1 bulbs or (later) Flashcubes; a few had a pop-up flash gun. Later models used Flashcubes or ("X" models) Magicubes without an adaptor. From 1975, 126 and 110 models were introduced to use the new Flipflash system.
Model numbers ending in 0 have pop-up flash gun; ending in 4 have Flashcube socket, ending in X have Magicube socket. Models ending in F have Flipflash.
Until the introduction of the "Kodapak" cartridge in 1963, with it's associated "Instamatic" brand-name, cameras aimed at the consumer market were almost universally roll-film models, with all the inherent problems of loading that that type of film incurs. Now members of the public could load their own cameras with no risk of fogging the film. When the Instamatics were introduced Kodak also released Kodacolor-X for colour prints, and Kodachrome-X and Ektachrome-X for slides. With the improved performance of the new colour emulsions, all three films could be used at the same setting as the then-popular Verichrome Pan black & white film, all of which were available in 126 cartridge. The first Instamatic to be marketed was the Instamatic 50, on sale in the UK some weeks before the Instamatic 100 was launched in the USA. The Kodapak cartridge featured automatic film-speed sensing, a feature possibly first seen on the Agfa Rapid system, and now common-place, with the introduction of DX-coding of 35mm cassettes.
The concept was an immediate success, with more than 50 million Instamatic Cameras produced by 1970. Kodak produced these cameras until 1985 in Europe with the 277X, until 1988 in the USA, the last model there being the X-15F, according to Kodak's on-line Customer Service Pamphlet AA-13, though it would appear that Instamatic 126 cameras were still being produced by Kodak in Brazil in the mid-1990's. The term Instamatic went into general usage to describe any easy-to-use basic camera, which rather detracts from a range that included an interchangeable-lens SLR, several range-finder cameras, and many with top-quality lenses from the likes of Rodenstock and Schneider-Kreuznach, as well as Kodak's own renowned Ektar. Whilst the bulk of production was no doubt from Rochester in the USA, and Germany and England in Europe, cameras were also manufactured or assembled in Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Canada, mostly for domestic sales. In Brazil, the Kodak Instamatic was apparently considered to be something of a luxury item, consequently a local manufacturer came up with the Tekinha Camaras, a minimalist option.
Brightline viewfinder and sunny/cloudy exposure settings. This example was manufactured in the UK, but I have been made aware of similar "camaras" being produced in Brazil.
Name: Kodak Instamatic 177X
Produced between: 1977 - 1984
Lens: f/11, 43mm
Shutter: 1/40, 1/80
Film type: 126 cartridge
Picture size: 28 x 28 mm
Categories: instamatic
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The Kodak Instamatic 56-X was a viewfinder camera for 126 (Kodapak) film cartridges. It was part of the Instamatic range from September 1972 until 1977.
Especificações
Type: viewfinder camera
Manufacturer: Kodak AG (Germany) and Kodak Ltd. (UK)
Year of launch: 1972
Film: type No. 126 cartridge for 28×28mm exposures
